%0 journal article
%@ 1616-7341
%A Storch, H.v., Zorita, E., Gonzalez-Rouco, F.

%D 2008
%J Ocean Dynamics
%N 3-4
%P 227-236 
%R doi:10.1007/s10236-008-0142-9
%T Relationship between global mean sea-level and global mean temperature in a climate simulation of the past millennium
%U https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-008-0142-9
3-4 
%X The possibility of using global mean near-surface temperature, its rate of change or the global mean ocean heat-flux as predictors to statistically estimate the change of global mean sea-level is explored in the context of a long climate simulation of the past millennium with the climate model ECHO-G. Such relationships have recently been proposed to by-pass the difficulty of estimating future sea-level changes based on simulations with coarse-resolution climate models. It is found that, in this simulation, a simple linear relationship between mean temperature and the rate of change of sea level does not exist. A regression parameter linking both variables, and estimated in sliding 120-year windows, varies widely along the simulation and, in some periods, even attains negative values. The ocean heat-flux and the rate-of-change of mean temperature seem to better capture the rate-of-change of sea level due to thermal expansion.